Recommend the commissioners for coinage in Scotland be paid a total of £700 between them

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/74, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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To the R^t Hon^ble the L^d High Treasurer of great Britain

May it please yo^r Lord.^p

In obedience to yo^r Lord^ps Order of Reference of the 27^th of November last, upon the annexed Memorial of the three Commissioners appointed by her Ma^tys late Privy Council of Scotland to receive all the Scotts & foreign coin see it melted into Ingotts & deliver the Ingotts by weight & assay to be coined & to certify the deficiency; in which Memorial they humbly desire that your Lords^p will be pleased to appoint them a suitable reward for their own attendance & trouble & for paying their Clerk & other servants & defraying the daily charge they are put to, & grownd their Petition upon their Commission w^ch bears that they shall be sufficiently rewarded: We have considered the said Memorial, & because the business of these Commi{illeg}|s|sioners requires diligent attendance in their own persons at the meltings & their trust is also considerable, We are humbly of opinion that they may deserve for themselves & their Clerk & other servants the summ of |seven| hundred pounds to be paid out of such a fund as the Iudges of her Majesties Exchequer in north Britain shall think proper|the bullion or coynage duty of that mint so soon as the present coynage shall be ended the equivalent w^ch was the proper fund being now incumbered.|

All which is most humbly submitted to your
Lordships great wisdome.

Mint Office
28^th Decemb. 1708

C. Peyton

Is. Newton

In Ellis